Welsh Liberal Democrats Councillor for Cwmbwrla Ward, City and County of Swansea - Visit my main website at www.peterblack.wales

Thursday, May 13, 2010

A complete lack of interest

Just for a change today I thought I would leave the new Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition Government to one side and talk about Plaid Cymru.

This morning's Western Mail reports that remarkably little interest is being shown in the election for Plaid Cymru’s top two officials. It seems that nominations close at the end of the month for the posts of leader and president and yet most of the possible contenders in the party were not aware of this fact.

Who knew that the Western Mail's Martin Shipton kept a diary of such events? Perhaps he would like to remind me of key birthdays and anniversaries, something I always forget to do anything about until the last minute.

It would perhaps be unfair to suggest that after Plaid Cymru's disastrous performance in last week's General Election that it is not surprising nobody else wants to take on the top jobs. After all they were beaten by the BNP in both Newport seats, came fourth in two of their target seats and actually fell back significantly in two others. However, the real reason is most probably due to the fact that they are in government and less than a year away from an Assembly election.

Nobody wants to upset the apple cart in such circumstances and I don't blame them. Mind you, if Adam Price gets elected to the Assembly next year all bets are off.

Folk singer Dafydd Iwan may have been an inspiration to College Student members of Plaid Cymru a few decades ago. He was the only prominent UK Folk Singer to pay tribute to the martyrs in Chile in 1973 and to the murdered Bishop Oscar Romero and our former patriots of history at a time when pathetic singers like Billy Bragg were just singing rubbish dirges. However, Dafydd Iwan has been a total and absolute dead loss as a Party President. Then the imbecile of science and numeracy Cynog Dafis led Plaid Cymru up a dead end "green" garden path to nonsense policies whilst betraying their only asset in Dafydd Wigley. Helen Mary Jones and Dai Lloyd also betrayed Plaid Cymru. They are now finished as a political force - killed by their own daggers.

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